The topic below was orignally posted in my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal.

Just prior to Election Day I did a post about my volunteer activism entitled, "Turning On the Janes and Phone Banking." I described my experience talking to a struggling single mother from Cuyahoga County, Ohio I called "Jane." Jane didn't want to vote due to frustration and cynicism. During our conversation Jane told me,

"I'm not waiting online all day like last time. Screwed up my whole day and my vote for Kerry didn't count anyway. It was stolen."

For good measure Jane added that I was,

"Wasting my time with these calls. It's fixed and the politicians never care about people like me."

George W. Bush during a busy week following the Karl Rove strategy of dominating television land in an election cycle announced his latest spiritual quest.  He insisted that this new awakening is burgeoning and that a campaign is under way to achieve a triumph on behalf of the forces of good and defeat evil in the process.

While Bush lines up as self-proclaimed leader of the forces for good some mixed messages have been observed on the international scene.  They were not in evidence in the mainstream media during a week when Katie Couric made her well-publicized CBS anchor review and interviewed drug-addicted Rush Limbaugh.

Meanwhile, in the real world, away from the submissive Limbaugh Dittoheads and Fox Zombies, it was reported that the UN nuclear watchdog protested to the U.S. government over a report on Iran's nuclear program, which counted as major news and was duly reported by Britain's BBC.  

In a letter signed by Vilmos Cserveny, a senior director at the International Atomic Energy Agency that was sent to Peter Hoekstra, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, the charge was leveled that a congressional report contained serious distortions of the IAEA's own findings on Iran's nuclear activity.